Commentophobe Ta-Nehisi Coates ends his brief update on Trayvon Martin with a warning for commenters not say anything about Al Sharpton. (I typed that Al Shartpon, which is probably a better thing to call him.) Not that Coates can tolerate any kind of disagreement or alternate viewpoint.

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I like fast cars, fast women and southern-fried rock. I have an ongoing beef with George Orwell. I take my name from a character in Plato's "Republic" who was exasperated with the kind of turgid BS that passed for deep thought and political discourse in that time and place, just as I am today. The character, whose name means "fierce fighter" was based on a real person but nobody knows for sure what his actual political beliefs were. I take my pseudonym from a character in an Adam Sandler song who was a obnoxious jerk who pissed off everybody.

Amusing! I read the link, this Coates guy is using all sorts of loaded language. “slaughtered”? “child”?. I don’t know what US law says, but in Canada a 17 YO can join the armed forces (may require parents permission). I don’t believe our armed forces recruit many children. If Zimmerman had burst into a kindergarten grabbed a toddler and emptied his magazine into the kids head, that would be “slaughtering a child”. Such an act would be condemned universally. That the current case is so hotly debated should twig Mr. Coates that things may not follow his simple narrative, but I guess that wouldn’t serve his agenda.

As an aside, in my mock scenario above, if the races involved a white child and a back perpetrator even other blacks may condemn such an action. After the OJ Simpson fiasco though, I am by no means certain of that.

A late-adolescent is a child now, eh? By the time I was 17 I’d already been laid a few times. Probably most of you as well and no doubt this “child” was probably also not a virgin. You may be mentally immature at that age but are not a “child.” Anyone with carnal knowledge ceases to be one. “Slaughtered?” This is what takes place with a blade to an animal which is sliced and diced. It does not involve guns. Ya heard dat?